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When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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Impossible Music Myself Song
No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Dare Disturb Oneself Silence Sound
I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Day Myself Self Love Smile
A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Challenge Simplicity Supreme Time
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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Camera Care Man Myself
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Laughter Myself Thinking
Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Myself Serious Talk
I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Myself Photograph Song Writing
I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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Death Each Other Friendship Hope Peace Regret
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Agreement Difference Oneself Point Way
It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Difficult Goodness Simplicity
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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Emotional Feeling Listening Myself Reveal Right Sentimental
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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Kind Magic Music People Perfection
I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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Escape Influence Powerful Thinking
Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Blow Myself Wind
I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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Crazy Happiness Lover Old Ourselves Time

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